Audubon Birdhouse Book, Revised And Updated: Building, Placing, And Maintaining Great Homes For Great Birds

Audubon Birdhouse Book, Revised And Updated: Building, Placing, And Maintaining Great Homes For Great Birds

The Audubon Birdhouse Book is the most authoritative book available for creating safe, sturdy, and easy-to-build homes for many of North America?s favorite birds. This updated second edition includes important new and timely topics including impacts of climate change on birds, nestbox monitoring for citizen science, native plants for native birds, and how birders can help birds. A visit to almost any home or garden center presents birders with numerous cute and colorful contraptions that are sold as bird homes. But the fact is, many of these products provide anything but asafe refuge for your feathered friends. Produced in association with theNational Audubon Society,Audubon Birdhouse Book explains how to build and place functionalDIY bird homes that are safe and appropriate formore than 20 classic North American species, from wrens to raptors. Each of theeasy-to-build boxes and shelves within is accompanied bycut lists,specially created line diagrams, andstep-by-step photography, making the projects accessible to those with even the most rudimentary woodworking skills. In addition, this practical and beautifully presented guide is packed withcolor photography andinformation about the bird species covered: Wrens, Warblers, Bluebirds, Flycatchers, Swallows, Titmice, Owls, Flickers, Kestrels, Chickadees, Ducks, Mergansers, Swallows, Doves, Swallows, Robins, Finches, Phoebes, Loons, Swifts, Herons, and Ospreys. Detailed information will help you